Displacement-Informed Urban Recovery: A Spatial Framework for Integrating HLP Rights, and Collective Sociocultural Resilience in Sudanese Cities

Sudan's compound crisis, marked by systemic HLP insecurity, the centrality of women's and community-based governance, and climate-accelerated vulnerability, demands a rethinking of how urban recovery is conceptualized and operationalized in protracted conflict settings. This research's overarching goal is to advance knowledge on urban recovery in protracted conflict settings by using Sudan’s compound displacement crisis, marked by dual statutory/customary tenure systems, women‑led community governance, and climate‑accelerated risk, as a critical case to interrogate the limits of existing post‑conflict urban recovery frameworks in the Global South. This research addresses that demand through four Sudanese cities, namely Khartoum, Nyala, Port Sudan, and Ed Damazin, selected because together they represent the spectrum of HLP conditions, sociocultural governance arrangements, and climate exposure profiles that a robust integrated urban recovery framework would be expected to encompass. Analyzing these four cities as a comparative case study enables research to move from context-specific em-pirical findings towards a framework with broader analytical applicability across conflict-affected cities in the Global South